Overview

You must customize the SAS Studio output environment to perform any of these tasks:

To customize the SAS Studio output environment, first disable the default output environment in order to conserve system resources. Next, establish your own output environment, and then execute the SAS statements that are required to generate your output. Use ODS statements, ODS procedures, or ODS options in your SAS program to define the environment that you need.

As a best practice, if your SAS program requires a customized output environment in SAS Studio, your program should always perform these steps:

Create a file reference for your ODS output. You can use the &_SASWS_ macro variable that is defined in SAS Studio to reference your home directory as shown in the following statement:
```
filename odsout "&_SASWS_/charts";
```
If you want to store your image files in a separate directory, create a second file reference for your image files as shown in the following statement:
```
filename ods1out "&_SASWS_/charts/images";
```
Note: The directories that you specify must already exist, and you must have Write access to the directories.
To conserve system resources, disable the default output environment by using the following statement:
```
ods _all_ close;
```
Open the desired ODS destination. Use the PATH= option to specify the file reference that you created for your ODS output. If you created a separate file reference for your image files, use the GPATH= option to specify the image output file reference. Here is an example:
```
ods html path=odsout gpath=ods1out file="saleschart.html";
```
Execute the SAS statements that are required to generate your output.
Close your ODS destination.

When you disable the default SAS Studio output environment, results are no longer displayed on the Results tab for the duration of your program. The results are generated only by the ODS destination that you open.